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Incite, urge ahead, provoke, as in Jack is always egging me on to drive faster , or Seemingly quiet, Margo actually eggs on Donald to quarrel with his staff . This expression has nothing to do with hen's eggs but comes from an Old Norse word, eggja , “to edge.” Both edge on and egg on were used interchangeably, but today the latter is preferred. [c. 1200]

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Swirl into scrambled eggs or top poached eggs on toast.

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For the brown hairstreak, both charities rely on volunteers going out in the middle of winter to look for tiny, pinhead-sized eggs on twigs using magnifying glasses.

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And the wild swings in stock markets around the world, egged on by the heightened risk of global recession, have not been good news for investors in the UK.

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"That was not only the highlight of my marathon, but pretty much the highlight of my entire sporting career, to be egged on by the great Paula Radcliffe."

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“The chicken or egg on how those things get untangled, and momentum shifted a different way, is a much bigger question,” Friedman continued.

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